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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
Monday, February 8th at 10 am: The Brookings Institution will host an event on the Syrian Refugee Crisis and the United States. Brookings Senior...
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Editor's Note: The 2015 Islamic State attacks in Paris highlighted not only the terrorist threat to Europe, but also the many European failings in intelligence and border security. Marc Hecker of the Fre...
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In a recent visit to PACOM with other Stanford colleagues, we had the chance to observe an Army brigade combat team exercise. This exercise involved an opposing force that was operating under free-play ...
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As Jack noted earlier this week, the new issue of the Harvard National Security Law Journal (for which Jack, Bobby, Ben and I serve as advisors) contains a number of ground-breaking articles, including p...
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This week as Iowa voters took to the caucuses, Brookings hosted a panel discussion on defense strategy for the next president. The panel, moderated by Brookings Senior Fellow Michael O’Hanlon, included R...
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Jonathan Zittrain gave us some good and some troubling news: we are not going dark.
Susan Landau reflected on the new report “Don’t Panic” and stated that we have a strong reason for national policy to...
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Today is the second day of the Strauss Center at the University of Texas-Austin's conference on the legal and policy dimensions of cybersecurity. You can watch the conference's panels live here:
Belo...
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By now, of course, readers of this blog will be familiar with the fact that a UN Working Group has concluded (by a vote of 3-1, with one abstention) that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is bein...
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On Thursday night, the Democratic presidential candidates took to the stage in New Hampshire for their fifth debate in anticipation of Tuesday’s primary. The debate was moderated by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow...
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President Obama’s national security aides and top military advisers are pressing him to approve military force in order to counter Islamic State militants that analysts say are forming a new safe haven i...
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In December, following the Planned Parenthood shooting and San Bernardino attacks, I shared some thoughts on the differences between domestic and international terrorism laws in the U.S. There, I argued ...
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Last week, the D.C. Circuit removed a hurdle for a pending suit against the Republic of Hungary and the Republic’s state-owned railway company. Judge Sri Srinivasan, writing for a three judge panel in Si...
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On Saturday, the United States Navy conducted its second freedom of navigation operation (FONOP) in recent months. This time, the destroyer USS Curtiss Wilbur transited within twelve nautical miles of Tr...
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We are told that EU officials are only now discovering that most of the “refugees” whom they had welcomed into their countries are actually not refugees at all, but are, in fact, the long heralded and dr...
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Today, the Strauss Center at the University of Texas-Austin hosts a unique and timely conference focused on the legal and policy dimensions of cybersecurity, which you can watch live here:
Below is t...
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The United Nations has suspended the Syrian peace talks and urged the nations fueling the conflict to do more to yield better results. Staffan De Mistura, the U.N. mediator, emphasized that the stalled p...
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Ben Wittes makes a modest proposal to backdoor encryption by removing legal protections from service providers, but the modest proposal has some major problems. First, a backdoor mandate by any other nam...
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Tamara talks about the administration's revamping of its efforts to staunch ISIS recruitment. Shane discusses how the NSA is making the line between cyber attacks and defense even blurrier. And I have a ...
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In a 20-page opinion, D.C. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper yesterday denied a request by Ahmed Abu Khattala to return to Libya and be spared the death penalty. Khatalla, who stands accused of orches...
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When it unveils its annual budget request next week, the New York Times reports that the Obama administration will request $582.7 billion in defense funding.